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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family's well-being - as much as 10 times more.

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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
Businessperson
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Dallas
Texas
Melinda Ann French
Melinda French Gates
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In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.
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If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.
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Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.
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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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I am inspired by the women I meet everywhere I go. They have to work so hard just to make sure their families survive, but somehow they stay optimistic and do everything in their power to make the future better than the past.
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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.
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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school. But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.
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Human-centered design. Meeting people where they are and really taking their needs and feedback into account. When you let people participate in the design process, you find that they often have ingenious ideas about what would really help them. And it’s not a onetime thing it’s an iterative process.
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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I'm seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.
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I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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